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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
Biggio actually made a much rarer move, the transition from catcher to second base. Catcher to third happens fairly regularly because both positions require right-handed arm strength. And generally speaking, taking a decent hitter off of catcher, even/especially at a young age, is kind of common itself - you allow the guy to play 150+ games a year and there's a common belief that the rigors of the position cause a player's hitting to degrade over time.
A few guys who switched out, some of whom you may not know about:
Dale Murphy (to RF)
Brian Downing (to LF)
Raul Ibanez (to "LF")
BJ Surhoff (to OF)
Todd Zeile (to 3B)
Carlos Delgado (to 1B)
Joey Votto (to 1B, obvs)
Jimmy Foxx (to OF and 1B)
Bryce Harper (to mostly RF)
Plus of course Johnny Bench was rather famously awful when he tried to move to 3B in "mid" career (I say "mid" because I think that was the intention but after he was really bad there he was out of the league a year later), and then the White Sox tried to push Carlton Fisk out into left field in his late 30s to make room for the immortal Ron Karkovice.
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BJ Surhoff was the only one in the list, I could find after abbreviated research, that was even similar to the Will Smith thingie.
Guess my point is..why do these relatively rare occurrences in MLB history and play..happen quite often in OOTP? Because something happened a handful of times in 150 years of MLB, it can/should happen frequently in OOTP?
I dunno the answer, I just know the culmination of atypical can lead to putoff-ish customers.